Jewelry



:e Sept. 1, 1931. 1.. J. CARTIER 51 AL 9 3 JEWELRY Filed April 24, 19:0

Patented Sept. 1, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I LOUIS JOSEPH CARTIER, OF BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, AN D JEANNE TOUSSAIIN'T, OF PARIS,

FRANCE, ASSIGNORS TO CARTIER SGGIET'E ANONYME, 0F PARIS, FRANCE, A COM- PANY OF FRANCE JEWELRY Application filed April 24, 1930, Serial No.

The present invention has for its object a jewel comprising as its main part a support or foundation made of a pliable texture which can be easily deformed by hand and is adapt 2 ed to keep the shape imparted thereto. Said texture is composed of small woven or interlaced pliable elements and is capable of taking the shape and the contour of the body upon which it is fixed or set in any suitable 2;) manner.

Upon said texture are secured ornamental elements of very different kinds. For instance they may consist of pins on which are threaded pearls or precious or semi-precious :5 stone beads. Said pins, which may be inclined or perpendicular to the plane of the texture are rigidly secured to, or mounted in a supple way on, the texture or support. Said pins could also be replaced by metallic 2o petals provided or not with stones. Or else, instead of pins, one could use small rings or hooks from which pendants, drops or the like would hang freely.

Particular embodiments of the invention,

' given by way of example, are illustrated in the appended drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side view and a plan view of a certain form of the jewel in which the pins shown without their stones, are secured to the foundation texture.

Figure 3 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale.

Figure 4 is a section on an enlarged scale M of the foundation texture and its border, on

"" line 44 of Figure 5.

Figure 5 is a plan view of Figure 4.

Figures 6 and 7 show different forms of the foundation texture.

In the form shown in Figures 1 to 5, the jewel comprises a foundation 2) consisting of woven metallic strips or ribbons upon which a certain number of movable elements such as pins a forming a diverging bundle are 43 mounted.

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Precious stones are set, threaded, or secured in any suitable manner upon pins a.

Plate 6 constitutes an essentially deformable support, and may for instance be made convex, as shown in dotted lines in Z), in Fig- 5 ure 1, concave, flat or be given any other shape. Rods a may be secured in a simple way by soldering the end a of each rod to the under side of support Z), as shown in Figure 3.

Said support may have any outline, i. e. be circular, square and so on. The border may be formed by simply folding the ends 0 of the metallic strips 0 around a wire, string or little chain d, or the ends may be clinched together, or simply soldered together. m

Instead of each rod a being rigidly secured in a fixed position, it could be given a certain degree of freedom. For instance, it could be so mounted as to be able to describe a conical surface having a small angular aperture such as a in Fig. 3, that result being obtained by the use of rivets, rings, or other fastening means.

The texture that forms the foundation may consist of strings of various sections, for instance flat, or substantially so (Figure 6), or even of round wires laid side by side or woven flat (Figure 7).

The distance between wires may be variable. The pattern they make may be of any kind and not be necessarily formed of elements at right angles.

Lastly, the wires may be replaced by elements of any kind, which make it possible by their being woven, to constitute a support that is pliable by hand and keeps the shape it has been given.

Said elements could for instance be fiat rings of any shape, cut in a metal foil and (iii interwoven. as;

The jewel, such as it has been described, could obviously be modified without departing from the principlesof the invention. In particular rods a could be replaced for instance by rings or hooks and that for any ornament or decorative feature of any design.

What we claim is 1. A jewel comprising a pliable foundation made of woven metallic elements, and ornamentative elements secured to said foundation.

2. A jewel comprising a pliable foundation made of woven metallic elements, a plurality of rods secured to said elements, and ornamentative elements mounted upon said rods.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification.

LOUIS JOSEPH CARTIER. JEANNE TOUSSAINT. 

